Did you hear that Russian spy's were arrested on Sunday for spying on the USA?

My first reaction was “Oh great, like we need more stuff going on right now”.

I’m really not surprised by it. There have been numerous things in the past few years that has made Russia not really happy with the US (like the missile defense thing back in 2007, the Russia-Georgia conflict that’s been going on for a few years now, and Kosovo).

I don’t like it and I’m sure it will lead to something, I just hope we proceed with caution.

@Seaofclouds
I agree.
You should read this for more insight into the situation. See link below.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/10/60minutes/main6568387.shtml

Now the russians just have to arrest some of your spies. And do not think for a second that the US does not have agents spying in Russia. They have spies everywhere.

@ragingloli
We are not using the Internet to corrupt their systems. See the above link addressed to seaclouds.

@philosopher
How could you possibly know what your secret agencies do not do?

Beware of the Red’s. They been tryin to invade since before the cold war.

The two alleged Cambridge, Mass. spies were arrested around the corner from where I live!

@answerjill
This is what is so awful they pretend to be decent law abiding citizens. Americans are kind accepting people. This may be our downfall. The terrorist do the same thing.
I do not want to be paranoid but.

@philosopher Get a grip. If we were to lock down this nation as tight as Nazi Germany was, there would still be spies on the lose. If anything, the more closed a society is, the more other countries will invest into infiltrating it in order to get information on whether it is a threat or not. An open society is all around the best policy. It’s too bad we as a nation appear to be increasingly turning our backs on the concept in attempting to reach the illusion of total security.

(Anyway, this is what the counter-intel people in the FBI and other agencies are for…)

I find it incredible how people complain about the oh-so-evil spies from other countries as if their country was the innocent victim. Just like the articles above.
“Oh no, evil spies are infiltrating our good natured and innocent country to destroy it”
And
“Oh no, evil spies from foreign countries are sabotaging our powergrid and stealing our secret information”.
Newsflash people: This feigned victimhood is nothing more than propaganda. Yours is not an innocent country. Yours is a participator in the game of espionage. Your secret services and their spies are doing the same things in other countries that the foreign spies are doing in yours. For example, your spies are responsible for the dicatorship in Iran. You toppled the former democratically elected government and supported the installation of the now ruling dictatorship. Or another case of espionage: After 9/11, your government started to secretly steal banking information of European citizens, which was only discovered years later.
Your country is in no way an innocent victim, regardless of how often the contrary is claimed and repeated. How certain can you really be, that the data theft and sabotage of powergrids all over the world were not perpetrated in one case or another by your own country, for example to blame the others for it and use it for propaganda purposes? (A.K.A False Flag Operations)
Given your own history in these matters, you can not be sure at all.

This comment on Metafilter pretty much sums up my thoughts. So I will just post it.

“Really? They couldn’t just get a gentleman’s degree from Harvard and intern with a senator, then spend 20 years kicking around D.C.? Or form a PAC or a lobbying firm? Or, if all else fails, just pay some lobbyists to push your agenda, and donate to some election funds. All of these approaches seem to have done pretty well recently, and look like a lot less hassle than this John Le Carre shit.”